Hi, all. I'm going to be presenting a paper on mailman at the python conference in a couple of weeks, and i'd like to be able to answer the inevitable questions along the lines of, "how big a list is being run with mailman?" So i'd like to hear from you if you think you have some really big lists, or an otherwise interesting situation where you're using mailman.
(I just ran the mailpasswds script by hand, with some gratuitous printing to see how many distinct subscribers, and we have around 2000 valid, distinct recipients, distributed over 33 lists. The largest individual list is probably jpython-interest, with around 450 members. Hmm - on a sparc 5 running solaris, the passwords job took around 1 hour to run - with 15 seconds total for doing the consolidation of all subscriptions for each address, the rest for sending out the notices.)
Ken
Depending on the time of year, the Dave Matthews Band mailing list has anywhere from 1500 to 3000 subscribers, where generally 2/3 are digested and 1/3 get every message. I would say there are also a good 80 messages a day year round. I know of a couple of low traffic announcement lists with up to 6K people, but that's not a heavy traffic load.
John
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 11:55:24AM -0500, Ken Manheimer wrote:
Hi, all. I'm going to be presenting a paper on mailman at the python conference in a couple of weeks, and i'd like to be able to answer the inevitable questions along the lines of, "how big a list is being run with mailman?" So i'd like to hear from you if you think you have some really big lists, or an otherwise interesting situation where you're using mailman.
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ken Manheimer wrote:
Hi, all. I'm going to be presenting a paper on mailman at the python conference in a couple of weeks, and i'd like to be able to answer the inevitable questions along the lines of, "how big a list is being run with mailman?" So i'd like to hear from you if you think you have some really big lists, or an otherwise interesting situation where you're using mailman.
Ok, I did a rough check, and lists.integral.org has approx 1000distinct addresses distributed over 6 lists, with the largest being a net-fiction list with 660 subscribers. That list receives 20-45 posts per day. Also, since it is a story list, most of the posts are stories avg'g 20 - 40KB.
Our most impressive stat is our web-archives, since the backarchives of two long running lists were added into the mailman archives when the lists were converted to mailman. The web-archives contain a total of 300MB, consisting of 36,000 messages.
-The Dragon De Monsyne
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